Saturday was competition... had a really rocky start... overcomed it... but during Direct Elimination, same old problem again... ahh... yet another close one. i seem not to be able to take the next step... ah well, tt's the last competition in quite some time, maybe something could be done abt it. wasn't tt great a day... but at least i did something rite... guess consoling someone and suceeding is good... :) dinner at secret recipe tt nite... and went round parkway shopping... was alone, and somehow i didn't go to the game shop to look for my long awaited Topspin tt nite...

next morning, went yh's place for tennis... well, am glad to say tt i felt tt i've been able to improve my consistency... though this still works as i tend to make strange errors from nowhere at all at crucial points. after i went home, got such a huge surprise!! parents had bought me Topspin... i couldn't believe it. it was the last copy, and i didn't see it the previous day. well, at least my parents did! :) though i didn't do work the past 2 days, i couldn't be bothered and played a few hours... was so engrossed tt when huishan called me to ask for help in some math stuff, i just mumbled nonsense to her... haha! okie... as a result, didn't get to watch Erin Brockovich like i planned to... well, i taped it! :P

today... hmmm, rain was highly irritating. wanted to go to NUS to look for an organic chem textbook... thank goodness for aaron's parents... or i wouldn't have got to the train station dry? haha... then at NUS, decided tt i didn't want McMurray cuz it wasn't fantastic... was actually gonna buy it cuz i was lazy to have to go elsewhere to look for Wade in such weather, but then msged nick, and he said dun get it, so i decided not to. thank goodness... :P then i went to clementi... buses were nice to me, all came very quickly... and i went to the big book store there and got the last 2 copies of Wade... haha... damn heavy! and its so beautiful... the colors and everything... wow! :) cm, u've good taste... haha. oh, the way the pass books from upstairs to downstairs is so cool, they've this slide thing and they just slide it down, and there's a spongy thing to cushion the books fall... nice! :) anyway, the book is great...!

okie, was raining today - so depressing and irritating. so can't have tennis lessons, so played more of my Xbox topspin. its damn nice! u can play it online with xbox live, and they've got like rankings worldwide, just like in the real life circuit and u compete against other pple online!! the graphics are fab, sounds realistic too... like u can hear the ball hitting the fence if u fail to get to it? mmmm... and the audience usually cheers for the underdog... like real matches! the whole game is just so cool... but lost my first match today, so my record is 5-1... arghh... went into the finals of a rather large tournament and got thrashed... sad. nevermind, shall try again tmr? haha...

am so glad life is returning to its usual pace again... i've time to do my own stuff and play com, watch tv... been crazy past few weeks where i've just been struggling and having no free time. i feel so dead without my recreational time... :P and after getting back some results this term, i think i've done ok this term considering how i've not been able to do my work etc... and sometimes, pple shouldn't tell me i should not be unhappy w my results... i will only be satisfied if i felt i've done my best, and i really dunno how to do... not if i made tonnes of mistakes tt shouldn't be there... k? and tt means i can be unhappy with an A... yes, so dun give me those looks, this is me.